Kodak Brownie

A Kodak box Brownie, the plain black box that made snapshots something ordinary families did. The first Brownie arrived in 1900 and sold for one dollar, and buyers took a hundred thousand of them in its first year. There is almost nothing to it: a fixed lens, two little reflecting finders and a winding key on the side. That simplicity was the point, because it asked nothing of the owner beyond pointing and pressing. Later box Brownies like this one carried the same idea on for decades, which is why so many old family albums began in a box like this.